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You'll no need to worry. **** such as yourself don't matter in the future of this fine nation.It's not. ScotNatism is a blight.0 -
For all Jeane Freeman's faults....handing Andrew Neil's arse to him on a plate during the first referendum has to got to be up there.
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Morton fans know only too well the "throw money in a bucket" system.I have yet to attend a game in this country, pro or Junior with the "throw money in a bucket" system you describe. Every junior game I have been to certainly in the times since the West regional setup has seen a paper ticket given out on admission. That alone would enable accurate counting. A junior stadium with no / very little seating would be very easy to self police SD wise.1 -
A bit lazy by quoting a 3rd of our GDP.Yeah, I was being lazy and didn't really bother checking. I just used the 66b figure from GERS as an illustrative point.The real morons here are the people who think "The deficit" has to be removed completely.
Our GDP is around 200 billion. Our imaginary deficit is 15 billion, I'd say at least half of that is bullshit.
So even based on GERS figures we would be running a deficit of roughly 7.5% of GDP.
Oh no, the world's going to end.
I'm sure we'd do just fine.
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The SNP have done far more than the Labour shower of shite that was carted out. Governed before austerity and could still barely build a new school or any sort of meaningful infrastructure. A bunch of non entities.She seems like a great politician because her supporters don't actually expect anything of her apart from dishing out telts.
The Edinburgh trams was their finest achievement since devolution though I'll give them that.1 -
Anyway. When will the UK pay it's population share of the Forth Bridge ? It is national infrastructure after all.
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We don't have a share of the debt. The debt firmly belongs to the successor state and will get paid whether negotiations result in Scotland taking debt or not. In short..... you're talking shite.From day one according to the Scottish Government's own figures.I think the fact this reasonable question triggers downvotes is testament to the levels of group think among Scottish Nationalists. It's almost as if they haven't begun to consider the ramifications of a yes vote. No one person has tried to answer the question.
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Scotland's GDP is larger than 66 billion.I don't know the answer to many of those questions, but the last paragraph is incorrect in that even if the figures were accurate, £15b would not have to be made up. Based on GDP of circa 66b a manageable deficit would be considered to be around 3.5b, going by conventional wisdom on the subject. 11.5b would still be a big hole to fill, all the same.0 -
Would love to see him in the prem.
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If Murray returns well he has a great chance. Raonic has a great serve but is a far inferior tennis player to even a past it Murray.
I think Murray starts as more of an underdog than he was for the Zverev match! These courts are playing very fast and the suits both but particularly Raonic in this match up.0 -
Kincardine uses that term because he's in the perma offended group of fans that think current bun is a sectarian term. What I'm trying to say is that the guy is a moron.
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Are you pals with Kincky ?Yes, and I've met a couple of yoons who are so craven and self-loathing they actually deny Scotland is a country, and would gladly see it annexed by England.
I'm not the sort of Scot who romanticises the country at all, in fact I'm rather ambivalent about Scotland as a place, but I'll never understand Scots who are so in love with the notion of being part of the union that they venerate England and all things English, to the point whereby they're visibly embarrassed at their own identity and nationality, and openly wish to see Scotland diminished as if that would somehow lead to them becoming 'more English'. No surprise either that the particular individual I have in mind also claims that Scotland is an anti-English xenophobic backwater, that they've never once encountered anti-Scottish feeling in England, and that on the whole England is a much more tolerant and affable place.
I genuinely wonder if we're talking about the same countries.
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Word salad is all that post deserves.If it had been the language of instruction at school and it was being routinely used in the media it would be easy for us to write sair heid rather than sore head. Scotland was too busy with its junior imperial partner plundering role to do that sort of thing in the 19th century when literary languages like Bokmal and Nynorsk Norwegian were being standardised elsewhere and for whatever reason there is no enthusiasm in the present day for emulating what the Catalans did post-Franco.
What to do with Scots is an awkward one for the SNP because a sizable portion of their activist base are panloaf speakers (for the sake of argument lets call them Torcuil and Catriona) who often still retain negative attitudes from an earlier era about Scots. There is a strand within Scottish nationalism that has latched onto Gaelic instead and try to push it as a national language rather than the reality of it being a local Highland/Hebridean one. Hence why Gaelic gets plastered all over Scottish government websites and Welcome to Scotland signs, etc in an empty token we're no #$%^in English sort of way.
Then there are large portions of Scottish history that are being actively dumped from the collective memory. Edited highlights about Bruce/Wallace talked about obsessively minus the invasion of Ireland by Edward Bruce and the Balliols briefly returning post-Bannockburn, but Knox and the Reformation almost never mentioned even though it explains why Scotland retained an ongoing level of significant adminstrative autonomy post-Union. All kinds of emotionalism from Fergus Ewing about Culloden OK, but Jenny Geddes and the Covenanters never mentioned...
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The union deid yet ? We might as well start a Big administration thread for it. We'd be poking fun at the same people anyway.
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I'm loving how Scots isn't normalised and I've been living in an alternate universe my whole life. People who use Scots a lot can interchange between both, with ease, depending on the setting.
It is a completely different language though. People from English speaking countries around the globe wouldn't have a clue what you're saying if you're speaking broad Scots between you and your pals. Bet you and your pals would understand them though.
It's a weird one, I prefer speaking in Scots but would never write in Scots. That shit would give me a sore head [emoji23]
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Loving the idea that socialism exists in California.
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That's fine as long as the 800k or so English expats that stay in Scotland are barred from voting.I see Galloway wants all Scots in the UK eligible to vote in Indyref2. I’m not sure how that’d work though - how do you define what a Scottish person is? Seems like a total minefield.
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This is funny. Go and look at the list of British politicians approval ratings. That should cheer you up a bit.Great to see them hamming up Project Fear in response to the changing polls.
Nationalists love to point to Scandinavia as their vision of sunny, snow-capped uplands, and of joining their dream team of small economies as part of a ‘Northern Arc of Prosperity,’ as Salmond used to call it.
However, we are never told how the journey will happen. Everything is sunny. There’s never any possibility of long detours, dangerous events, and dreich weather. Comparing Scotland to Nordic countries is simply a cheap trick that deflects from the reality of where we are now.
What if we didn’t get to Norway or Denmark at all. Given the reasons below I think it’s more likely we will end up, at the end of a long or short road, in Belarus or Ukraine: A divided satellite with no voice in the world, on the periphery of Europe, with an intolerant angry government, based on grudge and victimhood.
Independence
There is no such thing as ‘independence in Europe’.
Professor Mark Blyth makes it clear that, regarding Europe, you cannot be independent without your own currency. It is that simple. Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark all have their own currencies. Some chose to join the German-dominated EU (with opt outs), others didn’t.
The United Kingdom chose to leave Europe despite Nationalist wishful thinking that Scotland voted against Brexit. Over one million Scottish Leavers, many of them SNP members, would say otherwise.
The EU Commision requires its member countries to follow the same rulebook for trade policy, and increasingly coordinates many of functions best carried out by sovereign states. No one in the EU votes for the Commission, or Council. You can argue for the EU on many grounds, but certainly not on political and economic independence.
Personal Freedom
Alongside its main aim to break up the UK, the SNP has made repeated inroads into our private lives. Whether it be the Named Person Scheme, or the upcoming Hate Crime Bill, or the failed Offensive Behaviour at Football Act, or the ban on buying alcohol after 10pm, or recently, the arbitrary imposition of lockdowns with minimal evidence of value, Nationalists have always, throughout history, made every effort to nationalise people.
Nationalists might say they want their Nation’s independence, but they do not trust the people of their nation with personal independence. All they seek is power for themselves.
Nationalists also do not respect our political decisions. Instead they waterboard us with constant threats to rerun a referendum they lost, and meaninglessly parrot that ‘Scotland voted Leave’.
They do not respect that most ancient right for a Scot to be left in peace when they say no? “Are You Yes Yet?” is not an inspiration. It is the desperate pitch of the fanatic, who won’t shut up and won’t change the subject.
Political Freedom
SNP Bravehearts never miss a chance to wave plastic swords and scream ‘Freeedooom!!’ but the political reality is far, far different. And oppressive.
No sooner had Westminster granted Holyrood emergency powers to deal with COVID-19, then the Nationalists abused that power to delay the flow of information to the public. Despite multiple attempts, I have still not been able to access NHS data over delays in treating those with blood cancers during the pandemic.
Humza Yousaf will not waste five minutes in attacking an opponent on social media, but if you want data that would show Holyrood is failing cancer patients, you’ll have to wait over two months.
This week’s inquiry on the dangers to women of sexual predation in Parliament itself is yet another example where Murrell Central appears to have reached out, and touched Linda Fabiani inappropriately, shutting down legitimate inquiry questions. Is this the freedom we want?
Press Freedom
Like many failed republics, The Scottish Government likes to threaten and harass journalists and broadcasters. David Torrance was attacked in party political broadcasts; Stephen Daisley chased out of STV by personal attacks; Sarah Smith forced to repeatedly apologise; and Neil Oliver was constantly attacked by The National newspaper, for the crime of having a Scottish accent and sense of British history.
Add to that, Sturgeon’s stage-managed spin on a pandemic she has handled disastrously. A daily free party-political broadcast, worthy of a dictatorship, with no follow-up questions allowed.
Our levels of press restrictions and control are far from the open society of Denmark, Sweden or Norway who consistently rank high in press freedom indices.
If all these freedoms are being eroded now, one can only imagine how much more we would lose in a one-party Scottish Republic that had no internal or external opposition.
Watch out! We are not heading for dreamy Scandinavia, but to restrictive Belarus, where your cries of ‘Freedom!’ will not be heard.
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Would be funny watching the chaos of a hung Westminster parliament every term. 300 years of Westminster rule has surely taught us one thing. MPs are simply unable to work together for the greater good.Elect Scotland's MPs through proportional representation. First-past-the-post continually gives the SNP a strong majority of seats on a minority of the vote. We need a fairer way to elect Scottish MPs.
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Sevco will be dead (again) long before Holyrood.
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I don't give a shit which currency we use. A yes vote has always been bigger than all the little details. Fact is all the options are viable. No doubt a currency union in the short term is the most stable for both the UK and Scotland whether both parties agree on it or not who cares ? No one knows what will happen until negotiates are finished but you'll still get roasters demanding a 1000 bullet points of exactly what will happen after a yes vote.The Little Britons seem to be coalescing around the “but Scotland won’t have a currency” line from 2014. It’s a tricky one for the Yes sides because those same UK nats don’t actually give a shit which currency an independent Scotland would use; they just want to be given a concrete target to shoot at from now until any future ballot. However, not giving an answer to the currency question also makes the independence argument look weaker than it is.People that continually bang on about currency are the absolute worst c***s. I'm not sure that approach will work this time. I'll be more than happy to find out though whenever that is.
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Was thinking about doing the Merrick with my 8 year old son. How hard is it ? Should it be fine for an 8 year old.
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They've got my vote if Neil Oliver ends up off the Tele and in the jail.
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Thanks mate. Think you've made up my mind. Mull it is hahaA lot of farmland on Skye. Surprisingly difficult to get off the beaten track and when you do it's lumpy and soaking.
I have camped at Camasunary and Talisker though. Coastal and hope the midges get blown away is best.0
Scotland's 15.1 Billion Defecit
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